Saturday, August 15, 2015

#Teach180

Okay. For years, I've followed along with some amazing 180 blogs. The idea is to blog a picture from every single school day with a short caption. (Unless, of course, you're Justin Aion...) These aren't full blown blog posts. They're just photos with descriptions.

I have enough of a hard time trying to keep up with blogging once school starts without trying to remember to blog every single day. Last year, my blogging dropped off dramatically. But, I imagine that probably had something to do with starting my master's degree and dating someone in Australia... This year, I'm finishing that master's degree and marrying that someone, but I'm determined to stay plugged into the #MTBoS more. I know I'm a better teacher when I'm actively reflecting on what I do in my classroom within a supportive community.

I'm not starting a 180 blog, though. I admire those of you who manage that, but I need to make things as easy as possible on me. So, instead of 180 mini blog posts, I'm committing to 180 tweets. Every single day, I will take a picture of something that happened in my classroom and tweet about it with the hash tag #teach180. I may not be able to manage a blog post every day, but I can manage 140 characters minus the number of characters the hashtag and picture takes up. :)

Yes I can do this! I was a faithful new blogger all summer but imagine it will drop off some in the school year (although now I want to post all my precaculus interactive notebook materials...). I'm really enjoying the quick short & sweet nature of twitter. Never used it for math teaching purposes until just this month. Our school year is 180 days with students and then all those other days on top of it. We start (with students) Wednesday 8/26. Thanks again Sarah for all your help and inspiration this summer!

I wish I had known about this when I was still in the classroom! Or even at the beginning of the year. I could post my PD that I deliver to my math teachers I guess. I'm totally following what everyone's posting though!

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